That was the general belief held in antiquity.
Aristotle
Aristarchus was an ancient Greek astronomer who proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the solar system. He suggested a heliocentric model of the universe, where the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. This idea was revolutionary but was not widely accepted in his time.
Though many accepted the geocentric model of the universe, it was designed by the famous astronomer Ptolemy.
Claudius Ptolemy, an ancient Greek astronomer, proposed the geocentric model which placed Earth at the center of the universe. This model was widely accepted for over a millennium until the heliocentric model proposed by Copernicus gained more support.
The theory that the Earth was the center of the universe was popularized by Claudius Ptolemy, a Greek astronomer, in the 2nd century AD. This geocentric model of the universe was widely accepted in Western societies until the heliocentric model proposed by Nicolaus Copernicus in the 16th century.
Claudius Ptolemy was the ancient Greek astronomer who described a geocentric universe in his book "Almagest." He believed that the Earth was at the center of the universe, with the planets and stars orbiting around it.
Ptolemy
Ptolemy
It wasn't a polish astronomer that suggested the earth was not the center of the universe.
Ptolemy was the Roman astronomer who incorrectly argued that Earth was the center of the universe in his geocentric model. His theories dominated Western thought for over a thousand years.
Aristotle
Copernicus was a polish astronomer that first formed the theory that the Earth was at the center of the universe.
The idea that the Earth was the center of the universe was adopted because of the writings of Ptolemy and Aristotle. This was a common belief until the 1700s.
Copernicus
Aristarchus was an ancient Greek astronomer who proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was at the center of the solar system. He suggested a heliocentric model of the universe, where the Earth and other planets revolve around the Sun. This idea was revolutionary but was not widely accepted in his time.
Though many accepted the geocentric model of the universe, it was designed by the famous astronomer Ptolemy.
HE was the first astronomer to figure out the earth wasn't the center of the universe the sin was it was the heliocentric theory